A unique first name is a great help, but if you can provide any other information such as the State that Gillman was born and or lived in and honing in on the date a little would be helpful. Kathy (CT) At 04:38 PM 11/16/2005 -0700, Trudy Fielding wrote: >Looking for Gillman Drew (drue) Brooks married to Mary Elizabeth >Schrivner >had daughter Viola Brooks Hakes > >my g grandma. > >Trudy Fielding > > > > >==== BROOKS-NE Mailing List ==== >To unsub, send ONLY the word UNSUBSCRIBE to > BROOKS-NE-L-request@rootsweb.com >or BROOKS-NE-D-request@rootsweb.com

Looking for Gillman Drew (drue) Brooks married to Mary Elizabeth Schrivner had daughter Viola Brooks Hakes my g grandma. Trudy Fielding

Among the finds here is an undated newspaper article obituary for Benedict Brooks father of George S. Brooks and son of Hugh T. Brooks and grandson of Benedict Brooks. It gives some details of the family including grandchildren and activities with such tidbits that this Benedict was a delegate to the 1912 Democratic convention, but bolted the state caucus to vote for Woodrow Wilson. If anyone wants a copy, email me with your PO address. Happy Thanksgiving, Cheshire Jean

Hi! Looking for any info/connection with this Brooks line. Helen married William A Mapes on Aug 28,1860 in New York City and had Carrie Ceclia Mapes Dec 8, 1864 also in NYC. William Mapes must have died, because Helen then married Henry Edward Hildebrand (date unknown) and had Henry Edward Hildebrand Jr, in NYC on May 17, 1874. Helen's mother was Cecelia Mathilda Platt, birthdate unknown, d. 1877. Helen's father was David Brooks birth date unknown. All the above info comes from a Hildebrand family bible. I have been told that David Brooks was born in Stratford, Ct, but have no proof. There is a David Louis Brooks, Jr. d. 1899, buried in the Hildebrand family plot in Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY, who could be Helen's father. There is also an Edward Brooks, d. 1879, but I don't know what the relationship to Helen is (brother?). I have just begun researching this branch of the family, and any help with this Brooks line will be greatly appreciated!! Thanks. Gail Budd--Minnesota

Marion wrote: > I have a "missing" William Brooks (husband's family) - I > am so desperate to "find" him, would even be willing to > find that he was "mine" (big grin). Marion from Maine ---- Why not post a query again? The subscriber list changes over time as listreaders come and go. My own database also grows daily as I enter more data. Chris Christopher Brooks, List Administrator: ============================================ BROOKS-NE-L (Brooks Families of New England) at RootsWeb.com ============================================

I have a "missing" William Brooks (husband's family) - I am so desperate to "find" him, would even be willing to find that he was "mine" (big grin). Marion from Maine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maura" <genam1620@comcast.net> To: <BROOKS-NE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 10:04 PM Subject: [BNE] Who is the William Brooks, hung for murder Brookfield (Worcester), MA > Does anyone know who this William Brooks is? > > Thank you in advance, > > Maura J. Amrich, genam1620@comcast.org > Tyngsborough, MA > > > > ==== BROOKS-NE Mailing List ==== > To unsub, send ONLY the word UNSUBSCRIBE to > BROOKS-NE-L-request@rootsweb.com > or BROOKS-NE-D-request@rootsweb.com > >

He was a British soldier, as was Buchanan, both paroled POWs, while Ross was a 16-year-old Continental soldier. All four (Bathsheba + soldiers) were hung, 2 Jul 1778, at Worcester. The rest of the story should be available if you search the list archive for "Bathsheba Spooner." Chris > Bathsheba (Bourne) Newcomb m. (2) Brig. Gen. Timothy > Ruggles (her 1st marriage was to William Newcomb). By her > marriage to Timothy, she had a daughter Bathsheba > Ruggles. Bathsheba m. Joshua Spooner. Bathsheba along > with accomplices WILLIAM BROOKS, James Buchanan, and Ezra > Ross, murdered her husband Joshua in March 1778 in > Brookfield (Worcester), MA, she and her 3 accomplices > were hung for the murder on 7/2/1778, she was pregnant at > the time, believed to be the child of Ezra Ross, her > younger lover. (The book "Murdered By His Wife" by > Deborah Navas has more info and is supposed to have > genealogical information-this isn't my source for info, > it is a combo. of sources, mostly "Reminiscences of > Worcester: from the earliest period: historical and > genealogical, with... . Wall, Caleb A.. ....). > > Does anyone know who this William Brooks is?

Bathsheba (Bourne) Newcomb m. (2) Brig. Gen. Timothy Ruggles (her 1st marriage was to William Newcomb). By her marriage to Timothy, she had a daughter Bathsheba Ruggles. Bathsheba m. Joshua Spooner. Bathsheba along with accomplices WILLIAM BROOKS, James Buchanan, and Ezra Ross, murdered her husband Joshua in March 1778 in Brookfield (Worcester), MA, she and her 3 accomplices were hung for the murder on 7/2/1778, she was pregnant at the time, believed to be the child of Ezra Ross, her younger lover. (The book "Murdered By His Wife" by Deborah Navas has more info and is supposed to have genealogical information-this isn't my source for info, it is a combo. of sources, mostly "Reminiscences of Worcester: from the earliest period: historical and genealogical, with... . Wall, Caleb A.. ....). Does anyone know who this William Brooks is? Thank you in advance, Maura J. Amrich, genam1620@comcast.org Tyngsborough, MA

Forwarded from CTMIDDLE-L, the Middlesex County, CT list at RootsWeb, slightly edited for length. Chris ===================== You can go to the Brigham Young University website http://www.lib.byu.edu/ and do searches of over 5000 books which the Family History Library has put online.... the LDS Family History Library has announced that it has begun the process of digitizing and making available on the Internet all of the Family History books in their collection. These are primarily books in the "929.273 Series" that are currently housed on the first floor of the Family History Library (previously housed on the fourth floor of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building). At the present time (September 2005), about 5000 books have been digitized and are available, and they have announced that they are adding about 100 titles a week to the on-line collection. Copyright issues are playing a role in determining the order in which they progress through this task; books out of copyright are being done first. As these Family History books are digitized and placed on-line, an entry is placed in the Family History Library on-line catalog with a hyperlink to the digitized image. By going to the FHL On-Line Catalog, you can search for a specific name, find a book that has been indexed using the name, and view it on-line, flipping through the pages as separate "pdf" images, much the same as if you were on the first floor of the Family History Library. Of course, the indexing that is available through the FHL Catalog is only as good as the human indexers made it; typically they only include the "top" 4 to 6 names that appear in each book in their indexing efforts. But there is even better news! The digitized images of these Family History books are actually being stored on the electronic servers at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. By going directly to the BYU web site to view the images, there are several additional possibilities that provide genealogists functionality that they have never had before. You are now able to do full-text searches on each book, and on every digitized book in the collection. Now you can locate the small two-paragraph entry on Grandpa Ebenezer McGarrah that is buried in one of the Family History books that you would have otherwise never thought to look at before. This can open up a huge new possibility for extending lines, getting past brick walls, and uncovering new relatives! How to Find The Digitized Images? Go to the web site of the Harold B. Lee Library at BYU at http://www.lib.byu.edu/ on their home page, follow the links "Find Other Materials/Electronic/On Line Collections at BYU". Click on the "Text Collections" tab and select the "Family History Archive" from the list of collections that are displayed. You would then normally want to use the "Search All" feature with the "Search Full Text" box checked, although the "Advanced Search" will allow very high-powered searches that will allow certain phrases to be searched for and other words to be used to exclude potential hits. As you make selections from the "hits" that are displayed, yuse the "Click Here to View Item" button near the top of the screen to display the actual image of the page. You can page through the entire document using the index displayed on the left side of the screen. Each page may be printed after being viewed. At the first web page for the Family History Archive (the page that lets you begin a search), click on the "Browse the Collection" button to display every book that has been digitized and is available in the collection. You can scroll through this list much the same as if you were walking up and down the stacks at the library. At the top of the first page of the search results, it displays the number of hits, which (in this case) is the number of books in the collection. If you keep track of this number, you can get a pretty good idea of how fast they are adding titles to the collection as you revisit the web site from time to time.

Or you can store it in our attic to be found in about another 100 years! I found a projector for 8 millimeter film, or I think that is what it is, this past year. Was there anything before that? Cheshire Jean

Good afternoon, Most of us probably obtain our research microfilm on loan from the LDS library in Salt Lake City. A valuable alternative for those who wanted to purchase films has been ProQuest, the parent company of the HeritageQuest online digital library. Now ProQuest announces it's selling its microfilm business. Not surprisingly, everything's going digital. (Aren't you glad you're computer-literate and online?) From Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter: http://eogn.typepad.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2005/10/proques t_is_sel.html (The link above will line-wrap, and you'll need to copy/paste both lines and then reassemble them into one unbroken link in your browser to access the article.) My microfilm reader is currently in storage in my son's basement. Perhaps in a couple/few years its value will soar as an obsolete technological device still in good working order. :-) Chris

The Coggeshalls in America : genealogy of the descendants of John Coggeshall of Newport, with a brief notice of their English antecedents Boston, Mass.: C.E. Goodspeed, 1930, Pg 38 63 JAMES COGGESHALL (Lieut. Benjamin, Major John, John), of Newport, R.I., was born Newport, R.I., February 5, 1712; died East Greenwich, R.I., October 12, 1789; was buried in the Coggeshall Cemetery at Newport, R.I.: married Portsmouth, R.I., November 25, 1736, Hannah Brooks, daughter of Thomas and Mary Brooks, of Portsmouth, R.I. She was born Portsmouth, R.I., June, 1721; died Newport, R.I., December 6, 1780. Mr Coggeshall, for many years resided in Newport, R.I., and was on a visit to some of his children when he died. He had eleven daughters; many of them were of more than ordinary height, and he was often heard pleasantly to remark that he considered himself more favored than most men "as he had sixty feet of girls." His house was situated on a corner lot, the entrance to which bore the name "Coggeshall Gate." It was about a quarter of a mile from the Coggeshall Cemetery.

JohnMxzz@aol.com wrote: > Can anyone tell me if the Hannah Brooks b- Jun 1721 > Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, m- 25 Nov 1736 > Portsmouth James Coggeshall, d- 06 Dec 1780 Newport, R.I. > is the same Hannah Brooks mention in Thomas Brooks, of > Newport, will proved 7 Sep 1730. In the will Hannah was > said to be under 18 years of age. Evidently so, but you clearly know more about her than I do. My sole source to date is her marriage record in Arnold's "Vital Record of Rhode Island," 7:6, which reads BROOKS Hannah, of Thomas and Mary, to James COGGESHALL, of Benjamin and Sarah. Newport, Nov. 25, 1736. You can view the very scant information I have on this line at the Tributaries website. Click on Thomas of RI in the Founders table at http://www.tributaries.org/secondsite/founders-p/index.htm Would very much appreciate any further data you can share, including sources for the DOB, DOD, and will you mention. It's seldom to never that I hear from anyone in this line, and I'm afraid my research on it has been at a standstill for a few years. Chris |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Christopher Brooks BROOKS Families of New England http://www.tributaries.org ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

Good Morning; Can anyone tell me if the Hannah Brooks b- Jun 1721 Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, m- 25 Nov 1736 Portsmouth James Coggeshall, d- 06 Dec 1780 Newport, R.I. is the same Hannah Brooks mention in Thomas Brooks, of Newport, will proved 7 Sep 1730. In the will Hannah was said to be under 18 years of age. I appreciate it! John

Genealogical.com is selling some books at about half price, in case anyone is interested. Example below, and includes some of Maine and Massachusetts. > PROPRIETOR'S RECORDS OF THE TOWN OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, 1677-1761 > This work makes available the records of the Proprietors of Waterbury from > 1677 to 1761. It is divided into the following elements: orders and letters, > 1673-1687; first proprietors' book, 1677-1722; later records, 1722-1761; and > grants of land, 1682-1709. The virtue of this transcription is that it places > thousands of Connecticut colonists in Waterbury at a given point in time. > Was $27.50   Now $12.50 > > >> https://www.genealogical.com/item_detail.asp?afid=2169&ID=9728 >> > Cheshire Jean

FYI: The Kansas public library system offers online access to the Heritage Quest database for card holding members. Anyone (even out of state) can obtain a card, but it has to be done in person using valid ID. After that, you can access via internet. I believe you have to renew in person once per year. Thus, even for non-residents, if you can stop by a Kansas library & register for online access, you're set. For more info, visit http://www.jocolibrary.org (website of the Johnson County Kansas library system in the KC metro). -Kevin

Sally Bush, another Godfrey/HQ subscriber, wrote me: Several libraries in MA have free access to HQ. I live in Central Mass and I know that the Worcester library has HQ. I believe that anyone living in the Central Mass Library region can access it by going to the library's web page, clicking on the HQ logo and then typing in the bar code for their library card from any of the Central Mass libraries. You can do a "google" search for the library web site. I am sure that other town libraries in the state also have HQ so depending on which region you are in you can probably "google" those libraries to see who carries the service. Hope this helps, Sally Bush

Thanks to a correspondent who did some digging, and prefers to remain nameless, here's the nitty-gritty of how Massachusetts residents can access HeritageQuest for "free." As Jim Nolan commented, more and more libraries are purchasing institutional subscriptions to HQ and Ancestry and then making these services available to patrons on their premises . The Boston Public Library (BPL) is one of these. Any Massachusetts resident can obtain a BPL library card. The "catch" is that you'll have to drive into Copley Square and show proof of residence to get that card, and then return to the BPL each time you want to access HQ. Given the horrendous Boston traffic and the cost of gas and parking, $35 to access HQ any time night or day for a year via the Godfrey Library is probably the better bargain. Still, this is an alternative if you live in the greater Boston area. From the BPL site: Who can get a card http://www.bpl.org/general/circulation/whocard.htm Where to get a card http://www.bpl.org/general/circulation/wherecard.htm Electronic Resources http://www.bpl.org/electronic/index.htm Chris

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Check your local libraries as well, many are now offering access to both Ancestry and Heritage that you can access from home with your library card. James Nolan MIS Northeast Analytical, Inc 2190 Technology Drive Schenectady, NY 12308 (518) 346-4592 x11 jimn@nealab.com -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Brooks [mailto:trib@tributaries.org] Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 16:28 PM To: BROOKS-NE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [BNE] HeritageQuest offer for Massachusetts residents Passing on this truncated item from today's Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter. Unfortunately, the article is incomplete because Dick Eastman charges for the balance of the information. I'll see if I can't find it somewhere else. (There's nothing about this offer on the HeritageQuest or ProQuest web sites.) If any of you is a paid subscriber to Eastman, I encourage you to post the rest of this message, including details on how to access this offer. HeritageQuest, as I've said here more than once, is an outstanding resource library, and available for $35 a year through the Godfrey Memorial Library in Middletown, CT. Chris ========================== Free Access to HeritageQuest Online for Massachusetts Residents HeritageQuest Online is one of two online services that offer access to images of the original U.S. census records from 1790 through 1930. (Ancestry.com is the other.) These are images of the original census records in the enumerators' (census takers') handwriting. This online service is an example of the sort of thing only dreamed of by genealogists a few short years ago: access to images of original records available from home at any convenient time. The HeritageQuest Online service includes: Images of all U.S. census records from 1790 through 1930 Images of U.S. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files PERSI: an index of 1.6 million references to people and places that have appeared in genealogy periodicals since the mid 1800s A collection of more than 25,000 digitized family and local history books that are fully searchable The last one, 25,000 digitized family and local history books, is one that often gets overlooked. I do not know why that collection is not better publicized as it can save the beginning researcher hundreds of hours. If there was ever a book published about your family name, there is a good chance that you can read that book on HeritageQuest Online. In addition, the collection includes thousands of local history books that may describe the area where your U.S. ancestor lived. ==== BROOKS-NE Mailing List ==== To search previous posts by subject line: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/BROOKS-NE-L/ The address is case-sensitive.